Black trestle's broke but
the train tracks still go downtown
Plugged nickel accordion band
Kissing boys kissing girls on the hooteroll
jack Rabbit kicked the can

[chorus]
Virginia Virginia, don't even know my name
Virginia Virginia, nothing changes
But you don't feel the same

Tin foil teardrops ropes for the meter man
Pool hall police play mumbly peg
Horseshoe hopes on loan from the bleeding hand
Four scores later just like Lincoln said

Boris the gyppo tells me Russian fairy tales
In a Blackwoods sky no satellite
A firepriest keeps the photos beneath the Chippendale
Sometimes even he looks back in black and white

(repeat chorus)

Gabriel's trumpet Johnny's saxophone
Southside pinball mercy plea
Under the pines my sweetie said "Let's pretend it's Paris"
dropped me right down to my knees

Old dogs lie behind broken doorways
Mandolin bones and candlelight
Last chance wind blows cold sometimes from four ways
No one's gonna sing you to sleep at night
No one's gonna sing you to sleep at night

(repeat chorus)